Rome, March 21 - Italy is in shock after Spanish authorities confirmed on Monday that seven female Italian students were among 13 young people killed in Sunday's bus crash in the Catalonia region ...

But President Roberto Maroni, who leads Lombardy, where voter turnout was about 40%, has sought to distance the Italian vote from the situation in Spain. "We are not Catalonia," he told Reuters ...

Although Catalonia's situation is particularly worrying ... identifying countries such as France, Italy, Greece and those in the Balkans as being at high risk. "The Mediterranean Sea is a closed ...

Catalonia is rapidly gaining recognition as a world-class hub for major international sports events and business conferences, ...